Krista provides nutrition counseling at Cornell Health, as well as in the local Ithaca community. She enjoys working together to create strategies to meet an individual’s unique needs and desired health goals. She believes fostering a healthy food-relationship and creating a sustainable pattern of eating is foundational for overall quality of life.

Caitlin O'Brien (she/her/hers) is doctoral student in Astrophysics at Cornell University studying cosmology. She currently works with Dr. Rachel Bean to test gravity on the largest scales in the universe using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). 

Chijioke Onah is a Ph.D. Candidate in Literature-in-English. He is from Nsukka, Enugu State of Nigeria, and has lived in Ithaca since 2020. He joined the Bethe House team in the Fall of 2021.

LASSP is an interdisciplinary research center within Cornell Research & Innovation, one of the two research arms of the Physics Department and the administrative home of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science (KIC) and the Cornell NEXT Nano Initiative.

Naomi Pieczulewski is a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering. At Cornell, she works across multiple engineering departments to develop high-power electronics and quantum computing qubits.

Carmel Raz is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University. She studies the interrelations of music, mind, and body during the emergence of modern European musical cultures. How did the field of music cognition develop from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century? How did Enlightenment neurophysiology influence Romantic music?

Amanda first joined Bethe as a GRF in 2018 while completing her doctoral program. She is beyond excited to return as a House Fellow and reconnect with the Bethe community in this new role. As an Instructional Designer for eCornell, Amanda partners with faculty from across the University to build online courses that range from professional certificate programs to graduate-level courses.

Bradley is a professor of food and agricultural economics in the Dyson School, and he previously taught at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.

Michelle Smith enjoys working with and teaching undergraduate students so much that it inspired her to switch fields.  Michelle’s Ph.D. is in biology, with an emphasis in genetics.  While she liked working in the lab, she LOVED being a TA and often found herself daydreaming about ways to teach biology.

Aoise is a playwright, so she gets to make a lot of things up. Things she has made up have been performed in theatres in Ithaca, all over the country and overseas. She also makes things up for books and films, and she writes about the things other people make up as well.